Dead Butt syndrome,Dead butt syndrome sounds more dramatic than it actually is. The condition is caused by inflammation in the gluteus medius muscles, which play a crucial role in hip and pelvis stability. If you've been diagnosed with dead butt syndrome, rest assured that you can revitalize your gluteal muscles with consistent exercise. Work with a physical therapist if possible to strengthen your muscles safely and effectively.

De quervain tenosynovitis treated with rest + modified activities,I have Dequervain's in my right thumb. It is getting progressively more of a problem to the point where I have trouble gripping anything like a knife, brush, etc. as well as pain whenever I jerk the hand or put pressure on it. My chiro/therapist is treating it with ultra sound which helps somewhat to keep it to a dull roar. Previously he was using electrical stimulation which seemed to me to make it worse. I have kept it at bay with Flector patches cut in triangles to wrap my thumb overnight but insurance is no longer going to cover that. I've used SalonPas which also eases it a bit. I tried a compounded NSAID Rx cream but that was mostly useless.  I know the next step is usually cortisone injections by a hand specialist but injected cortisone and I have never gotten along well in the past.

 You Have What? Painful Syndromes with Odd Names,1. The joys of new motherhood can be overshadowed by the pain of this disorder. Over time, holding and lifting a baby from the crib makes it more likely you'll experience symptoms, which include pain or swelling on the thumb side of the wrist."baby wrist" tendonitis,de quervains's tenosynovitis,

Earl Haas + $32,000,Earle Haas, D.O., born in 1888, was an osteopathic physician. He graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathy in 1918 and spent 10 years in Colorado as a country general practitioner, then went to Denver in 1928.
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He invented a flexible ring for a contraceptive diaphragm (and made $50,000 from selling the patent), sold real estate and was president of a company that manufactured antiseptics.
Haas wanted to invent something better than the "rags" his wife and other women had to wear, he said, and got the idea for his tampon from a friend in California who used a sponge in the vagina to absorb menstrual flow. So he developed a plug of cotton inserted by means of two cardboard tubes; he didn't want the woman to have to touch the cotton.

The History of Medicine,By defintion, medicine is the science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and damage to the body or mind. A medical invention would be any instrument, machine, implant, or similar article that is useful in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of disease, for example: the thermometer, artificial heart, or a home pregnancy test.

APGAR SCALE
The Apgar scale is a standardized scale that is used to determine the physical status of an infant at birth. This simple, easy-to-perform test was devised in 1953 by Dr. Virginia Apgar (1909-1974), a professor of anesthesia at the New York Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. The Apgar scale is administered to a newborn at one minute after birth and five minutes after birth. It scores the baby's heart rate, respiration, muscle tone, reflex response, and color. This test quickly alerts medical personnel that the newborn needs assistance.

 Smallest artificial heart baby,Italian doctors in March implanted the smallest ever artificial heart into a 16-month-old baby before the infant received a permanent organ donation, said the hospital that performed the operation.

 Weight loss breast cancer risk,Weight loss might help to decrease a risk factor for breast cancer, according to a new study.


For obese and overweight women, losing just 5 percent of total body weight could help to lower circulating estrogen levels linked with increased breast cancer risk, according to the study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center conducted their study on 439 women between the ages of 50 and 75, all of whom were overweight or obese. They were split up into four groups: the diet-only group, the exercise-only group (which consisted mainly of walking at a brisk pace), the exercise-and-diet group and the no-intervention group.

Medieval Medical Treatments,Medieval medicine: from hot irons for hemorrhoids to bloodletting for almost any ailment; meet ten of the most horrible treatments of middle age's medicine, presented by our guest author David Morton.
 Surgery: Crude, blunt and horribly painful

Surgery in the Middle Ages was crude and blunt and … PAINFUL! Surgeonshad a very poor understanding of human anatomy, anesthetics andantiseptic techniques to keep wounds and incisions from infection. It was not a pleasant time to be a patient, but if you valued your life, there was no choice. To relieve the pain, you submitted to more pain, and with any luck, you might get better. Surgeons in the early part of the Middle Ages were often monks because they had access to the best medical literature – often written by Arab scholars. But in 1215, the Pope said monks had to stop practicing surgery, so they instructed peasants to perform various forms of surgery. Farmers, who had little experience other than castrating animals, came into demand to perform anything from removing painful toothabscesses to performing eye cataract surgery.

Marilu Henner super memory_This week on "60 Minutes," Lesley Stahl reported on a very rare ability: to remember each day of your life as if it happened yesterday. It's called "superior autobiographical memory" and scientists have only identified a handful of people in the world who have it. One of them is actress Marilu Henner of "Taxi," oddly enough.

10 Reasons Your Ab Exercises Aren't Working_As the weather warms and spring break approaches, we’re all forced to do that same rather scary thing: unearth the bathing suit and take a good, hard look in the mirror. I did it just last week and was relieved to see that my job as fitness editor at Prevention had kept my abs from going too far south. Still, given all the hours I clock at the gym, I wouldn’t mind seeing a little more definition. That’s when I realized I needed to fine-tune my game. If you’ve been putting in the effort and still don’t have the abs you’re after, take heart, you’re not alone. Here are 10 slipups that mess with your six pack—plus expert fixes to get you back on track.

Obesity and Autism_ Children born to obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with autism or related developmental delays than the children of slimmer mothers, according to a U.S. survey.
The research, which appeared in Pediatrics, was looking for the impact on childrens' cognitive development from a variety of "metabolic conditions" in the mother, including high blood pressure or diabetes. The strongest links were found between obesity and autism-related disorders.
Although the study cannot prove that one condition causes the other, its authors caution that even the possibility is worrisome in the light of rising U.S. obesity rates.

 Aspirin Cancer:Daily Aspirin May Reduce Cancer Risk_Aspirin, a popular weapon in the war against heart attacks, may also play a role in cancer prevention and treatment, three new British studies suggest.
"We have now found that after taking aspirin for three or four years there starts to be a reduction in the number of people with the spread of cancers, so it seems as well as preventing the long-term development of cancers, there is good evidence now that it is preventing the spread of cancers," said lead researcher Dr. Peter M. Rothwell, a professor of neurology at the University of Oxford and John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Drug resistant white plague_On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood.
It was strange to be diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB)- an ancient disease associated with poverty - especially since Watterson was a well-off trainee lawyer living in the affluent British capital of London. Yet it was also a relief, she says, finally to know what had been making her ill for so long.
But when Watterson's infection refused to yield to the three-pronged antibiotic attack doctors prescribed to fight it, her relief turned to dread.

Side effects of thermage burns scars blemishes dents grooves_Side Effects Of Thermage Burns Scars Blemishes Dents Grooves—–Thermage can cause side effects as burns and scarring and a rare side effect of Thermage is the blemishes dents grooves i.e. creation of dents in the treated skin. Thermage is a non-surgical face lift and prices may vary depending on the doctor and how many treatments need to be done. Thermage is used to smooth out wrinkles, tighten the skin, and redefine facial contours.